We talked at dinner last night. It went something like this:

Tater: Mom, guess what I’m going to be when I grow up. A doctor
Mom: Wow. That’s great. **before I can finish**
Tater: Yaa, I want to make lots of money and be rich.
Mom: Well you have to do well in school. Writing will be very important **side note: tater HATES to write**
Tater: hmmm. I still want to be a doctor.

and we went on to talk about specialties and he said he wanted to work on old people because they would have more problems and pay more for it. It took everything for me not to bust out laughing. That boy was serious and I had to agree with him. Gotta love the way my kids think about things.

Tags: Mom, Tater

I had lunch with 2 of my unmarried friends. One is engaged, one is a mistress and I have been married for 20+ years.

We were chatting about our relationships and decided to amaze our men by greeting them at the door wearing a black bra, stiletto heels and a mask over our eyes.

We agreed to meet in a few days to exchange notes.

Here’s how it all went.

My engaged friend:

The other night when my boyfriend came over he found me with a black leather bodice, tall stilettos and a mask. He saw me and said,’You are the woman of my dreams. I love
you.’ Then we made passionate love all night long.

The mistress:

Me too! The other night I met my lover at his office and I was
wearing a raincoat, under it only the black bra, heels and mask over my eyes.When I opened the raincoat he didn’t say a word but he started to tremble and we had wild sex all night.

Then I had to share my story:

When my husband came home I was wearing the black bra, black stockings, stilettos and a mask over my eyes. When he came in the door and saw me he said, ‘What’s for dinner, Batman?’

Tags: Humor

A redneck was stopped by a game warden in Central Mississippi recently with two ice chests full of fish. He was leavin’ a cove well known for its fishing. The game warden asked the man, ‘Do you have a license to catch those fish?’

‘Naw, sir’, replied the redneck. ‘I ain’t got none of them there licenses. You must understand, these here are my pet fish.’

‘Pet fish?’

‘Yeah. Every night, I take these here fish down to the lake and let ‘em swim ’round for awhile. Then, when I whistle, they jump right back into these here ice chests and I take ‘em home.’

‘That’s a bunch of hooey! Fish can’t do that.’

The redneck looked at the warden for a moment and then said, ‘It’s the truth Mr. Government Man. I’ll show ya. It really works.’

‘OK’, said the warden. ‘I’ve got to see this!’ The redneck poured the fish into the lake and stood and waited. After several minutes, the warden says, ‘Well?’

‘Well, what?’, says the redneck.

The warden says, ‘When are you going to call them back?’

‘Call who back?’

‘The FISH’, replied the warden!

‘What fish?’, replied the redneck.

Seems that the company my husband works for is changing insurance… again. No joke, for a while it was every other year. It had finally settled down, I was getting into the flow and… wham… what scares me is how much higher it is this time. We can barely afford it. I’m seriously thinking about stepping up my search for a part time job, just so we can pay for decent insurance.

It’s not only me, I was talking to a Pharmacist and she was mentioning how shocked every is lately about how much their co-pay has increased. I think the Insurance companies ought to stand up and listen to me now… Lower it or lose it. I don’t want the new government insurance, but if I can’t pay your rates (and I’m close to it now)… then I will have NO CHOICE but to change and YOU WILL LOSE. You will get fewer and fewer participants until your rates are so high, even they will leave.

I was searching the web and found Blue Advantage information. Plan A pays 80% of the in-network and plan B pays 70%… what???? That could be a HUGE amount of money. Particularly for someone like me who has a kid with asthma. This just sucks.

I need to go to the doctor but can’t because I can’t afford it… which means I’m sick longer, and likely to get so sick that it could be deadly… but until it reaches that point… I can’t go in… what a vicious cycle. God help us because I don’t see anyone in the government or outside of it helping us.

Tags: insurance, Mom

Sometimes I read things around the web that say it so much better than I could…

Like the new Sin Tax they are considering in Florida. Take a look at THIS POST to see Bou’s take on it.

And while I usually think Ogre is on the edge, he has an excellent POST HERE, that makes me envision Senator Palpatine on his way to become Emperor Palpatine and his change of the Senate Guard to the Red Guard. Follow the link he has… it goes to the Washington Post…

It is hard to be positive when all you read makes you shudder. Because there is so little you can do to change the direction of it. Yep, this stuff bothers me.

Tags: Mom, politics

Jennifer’s wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement — not even her parents’ nasty divorce.

Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!

A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father’s new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!

Jennifer asked her father’s new young wife to exchange it, but she refused. ‘Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I’m wearing it,’ she replied. Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, ‘Never mind sweetheart. I’ll get another dress. After all, it’s your special day.’

A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ‘Aren’t you going to return the other dress? You really don’t have another occasion where you could wear it. Her mother just smiled and replied, ‘Of course I do, dear. I’m wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.’

NOW I ASK YOU – IS THERE A WOMAN OUT THERE, ANYWHERE, WHO WOULDN’T ENJOY THIS STORY?

A married couple was in a terrible accident where the Man’s face was severely burned. The doctor told the Husband that they couldn’t graft any skin from his body Because he was too skinny. So the wife offered to donate Some of her own skin. However, the only skin on her body That the doctor felt was suitable would have to come from her buttocks. The husband and wife agreed that they would tell no one about where the skin came from, and they requested that the doctor also honor their secret. After All, this was a very delicate matter.

After the surgery was completed, everyone was astounded at the man’s new face. He looked more handsome than he ever had before! All his Friends and relatives just went on and on about his youthful Beauty!

One day, he was alone with his wife, and he was overcome with emotion at her sacrifice. He said, ‘Dear, I just want to thank you for everything you did for me. How can I possibly repay you?’ ‘My darling,’ she replied, ‘I get all the thanks I need every time I see your mother kiss you on the cheek.’

Tags: Humor

Not much to say… I have 2 more infections in my breasts. They decided to spread it out and I have one in each. I’m tired and would rather read or play farmtown than write a post. The boys are already tired of school. I’m just tired. Something witty and fun in the future. Just not today… well… unless something funny happens later on and I can write it up. This morning… just not happening.

Tags: infections, Mom

My lunchables have a first name
It’s Oscar
My lunchables have a second name
It’s Mayer

Yummmmmmyyyyy… I had a houseparty for Oscar Mayer lunchables and it was fantastic. The kids were great, the adults were wonderful… After such a relaxing time… I would even consider doing it again. Just for no reason at all!

As part of my ‘decorating’ I made brownies… I turned out cute so I had to post a picture of them:

And what are lunchables are those without kids asking? It is pre-packaged lunches… Here are some I put out for display:



And I was able to give everyone coupons for $1 off as well as one free one. They also provided ‘games’ for us to play with the ‘families’ that attended. Like this one where you had to make up as many words as you could from the word LUNCHABLES. The winner of this one got a lunchbag I was sent.. .I filled it with school supplies per their suggestion.



Another was for everyone to make paper airplanes and see whose flew the farthest. Not happening when I have kids from ages 2 to 7. I changed it to ‘Lunchables Faces’. It turned out cute…



Here are a few of the faces (but not all!):



I think one activity that stands out was the pyramid. Sponges, Water… yaa… they were suppose to throw the sponge to their favorite food group. Like Vegies or grains or beans… One of the girls there asked where Candy was… baw hahahahaha…



Seems the kids kept running around even when it was ‘time to eat’… I caught a few at the table…



I must say, it was a lot of fun. They make it easy. They gave away some cool stuff. If you look at the upper right corner of the picture above you’ll see a ‘cooler’ on wheels I was given. Totally awesome! Still, whether I win another party or not, I think I’ll have to bring this group together again. It was a good mix.

Tags: house party, Mom, oscar mayer